Harold @harold@qoto.org

early paper is so adorable.

trying to schedule a meeting with another two people is too reminiscent of 'when shall we three meet again', my brain read me the sentence every time I replied in the email thread.

Marking student's confusing coursework on not only a Friday night but also the Good Friday night, feeling like the epitome of having-no-life.
(while also sincerely wishing for elbow patch for the cardigan cuz it's going thin (

Students.

I can't believe it, that paper is titled
The Importance of Being Random
It's not even funny! It doesn't rhyme!
(but can I get a job in your lab later pls)

Reading continuous-time markov chain, while the brain remembers Thief of Time about Wen the Eternally Surprised.
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The first question they ask is: 'Why was he eternally surprised?'

And they are told: 'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.'

Terry Pratchett the Mathematician.

giggling while typing "Let P be a transitive group of isometric permutations"
oh dear how the imposter feeling hits.

After reading the intro three times, at one hour interval:
wait, I have already done this in my preprocessing. This work is only generalising my process to be applicable in any arbitrary cases.
Well at least it probably means I can prove my preprocessing works when I finally learn the probability theories.
Escape from maths, failed.

I laugh too much at a typo.

Me making assumptions for my work:
This is too strong, it is utterly unrealistic, there is no need for me to exist if I make it like that

Students making assumptions on coursework:
eVeRYThing CAN miRacuLoUsLY AuToMatiCALly work itself out!

Marking students is like the most effective mindful practice in the world.

I feel I just TAsplained to the poor student who's getting marked at 2am.
I'm sorry but it's for you to have a higher probability of passing the Jan exam.

Supervisor replied to what I feel like at least 20 emails from student asking questions about the assignment over the weekend (she cced me everthing) and still hasn't gone mad! She's a saint.
Maybe next time if she asks me again 'are you happy' I could actually tell her 'yeah I am only able to sleep for an average of six hours per day what do you think' (
(well she doesn't deserve that. meeting with her usually feels nice. I'd be calmed in the end when we get to that part of exchanging best wishes.)

@xp_eileen_mathematics some of our students wrote on the forum: 'where can I see my feedback it's blank on the web page'....😂
What my supervisor said about her past experience is more like yours. She told me to write feedback in a somewhat vague, high-level way to see if that avoids following questions this year... we are gonna test it out during the marking later in the month

walking in the park thinking: when this week's over the other two probably will go back home and I'd have the flat to myself, at least that made up for no trip for xmas.
coming upstairs into my kitchen: someone new cooking in the kitchen telling me she moved in yesterday.
Just my luck.

@xp_eileen_mathematics I do that in my feedback. And our lecturers talk in LaTex in Slack too so 😂
just students are submitting the photoscan of their handwritten homework.
Surprisingly it looks like I give the most detailed explanation of what they've done wrong, other TA just left it blank...then student came back in lab session asking why they lost marks....then I ended up tidying up after other people again.

half asleep and typed 'cyclic group G of prime order p with generator g' into the latex for the first time.
I'll correct it like a decent person tmr when I'm more awake...
(it's only diffie-hellman why are you so nervous about it.)